10/08/2026
Vaccines are a free and safe way to protect your child from serious diseases, such as whooping cough, measles and more. Vaccinating on time will also:
😷 protect your family and community
🚸 make it easier to enrol your child in childcare or preschool
🫶 support access to family assistance payments
Delaying a vaccination could put your child at risk of catching a disease and becoming very sick. Some vaccine-preventable diseases cannot be cured and lead to lifelong infection and health problems.
Vaccines work best when most people are immunised. This creates herd immunity and protects those who can’t yet be vaccinated. Up to 95 per cent of the population needs to be vaccinated to obtain herd immunity against a disease.
Without high vaccination rates, preventable diseases can spread more easily. This puts vulnerable people, especially young children and unborn babies, at greater risk.
All vaccines approved for use in Australia have undergone rigorous testing to ensure they are safe and effective. A vaccine must pass clinical trial phases before it can be registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Even once a vaccine has been approved by the TGA, it continues to be monitored closely to ensure the safety and well-being of all Australians.
